Originally Posted by
tickerguy I'm sure they DID test it but the problem with any antenna-uses-part-of-body design (and that's NECESSARY if the phone is metal-cased as the metal is otherwise a faraday cage!) is that the resonance shift is highly variable depending on the individual in question, exactly how they hold the phone, etc.
I would have put the antenna coupled pieces on the TOP, as it's far less-likely for someone to grab those. It appears the KeyOne has them on the BOTTOM (the two insulated pieces by the speaker and mic), which are going to be in contact with you when you're talking and holding the device.
There are other considerations, however, in this -- one of them being SAR requirements (body exposure.) Putting the radiating elements at the top of the device might have made compliance with SAR limits for head RF exposure impossible, and that left the engineers no real option than to put them where they did.